- Title
- Land succession and fission in nineteenth-century Western Victoria: The case of Knenknenwurrung
- Creator
- Clark, Ian
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/66064
- Identifier
- vital:195
- Identifier
- ISSN:1035-8811
- Abstract
- This article examines the evidence for land succession in western Victoria and considers the fission, fusion, and extinction of some clan groups at the time of contact with non-Aboriginal people in the late 1830s and 1840s. A special study is made of the intriguing scraps of evidence surrounding Knenknenwurrung. This appears to be the case of a cluster of related clans fragmenting and being absorbed into contiguous language groups¾some into Djadjawurrung, some Jardwadjali, and the majority absorbed into Djabwurrung. Exactly when this fragmentation and fission occurred is unclear, but certainly within the living memory of Aboriginal people in the early 1840s.; C1
- Publisher
- Sydney, Australia Australian Anthropological Society Inc.
- Relation
- Australian journal of anthropology Vol. 17, no. 1 (2006), p. 1-14
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Anthropological Society Inc.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- 1601 Anthropology; Indigenous people; Clans; Tribes; Nineteenth century; Land; Victoria
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